List Of City Name Changes In India 2023 (Complete List)

Last Updated: 4 March 2023

In India, the renaming of cities started way back in 1947 following the end of British rule in India. Many Indian states’ names were changed during British Raj in India.

After the Independence of India, People from several states proposed changing the names as per their local language and various other factors.

Many changes were controversial, and not all proposed changes were implemented. The proposed name had to be approved by the central government in New Delhi to officially rename it.

We present to you a complete list of city name changes in India that had been renamed from 1947 till date.

List Of City Name Changes In India

No.	Past Name	Present Name	Year
1	Alleppey	Alappuzha	1990
2	Allahabad	Prayagraj	2018
3	Amin	Abhimanyupur	2019
4	Banaras	Varanasi	1922
5	Bangalore	Bengaluru	2006
6	Baroda	Vadodara	1974
7	Belgaum	Belagavi	2014
8	Bellary	Ballari	2014
9	Bijapur	Vijayapura	1956
10	Calicut	Kozhikode	~
11	Cannanore	Kannur	1957
12	Chirayinkil	Chirayinkeezhu	2012
13	Chikmagalur	Chikkamagaluru	2014
14	Cochin	Kochi	1996
15	Cuddapah	Kadapa	2005
16	Fort William ↓ Calcutta	Kolkata	2001
17	Gauhati	Guwahati	1983
18	Gulbarga	Kalburgi	2014
19	Gurgaon	Gurugram	2016
20	Hospet	Hosapete	2014
21	Hubli	Hubballi	2014
22	Indravati ↓ Umravti	Amravati	1097
23	Jajesmow	Jajmau	1948
24	Jubbulpore	Jabalpur	1947
25	Jeypore	Jaipur	1727
26	Kanhiyapur ↓ Cawnpore	Kanpur	1948
27	Karnavati	Ahmedabad	1411
28	Kattachakonam	Kesavadasapuram	1949
29	Lakshmanpuri ↓ Lakhanpur ↓ Lakhnau	Lucknow	1528
30	Madras	Chennai	1996
31	Mangalore	Mangaluru	2014
32	Mapuça	Mapusa	1946
33	Mumba ↓ Boa Baia ↓ Bombay	Mumbai	1995
34	Mustafabad	Saraswati Nagar	2016
35	Mysore	Mysuru	2014
36	New Bombay	Navi Mumbai	1995
37	New Raipur	Atal Nagar	2018
38	Ootacamund	Udhagamandalam	1972
39	Orissa	Odisha	2011
40	Palghat	Palakkad	1866
41	Panjim	Panaji	1961
42	Pataliputra	Patna	490 BCE
43	Pondicherry	Puducherry	2006
44	Poona	Pune	1978
45	Qila Rai Pithora ↓ Siri ↓ Tughluqabad ↓ Jahanpanah ↓ Kotla Firoz Shah ↓ Purana Qila ↓ Indraprastha ↓ Shahjahanabad	Delhi	1648
46	Quilon	Kollam	1949
47	Rajahmundry	Rajamahendravaram	2015
48	Ratnapur	Latur	1905
49	Saket	Ayodhya	1969
50	Shimoga	Shivamogga	2014

51	Tanjore	Thanjavur	1950
52	Thirusirappalli ↓ Trichinopoly ↓ Trichy	Tiruchirappalli	1971
53	Thrishivaperur ↓ Trichur	Thrissur	1949
54	Trivandrum	Thiruvananthapuram	1991
55	Tumkur	Tumakuru	2014
56	Vizagapatam	Visakhapatnam	1979
57	Wheeler Island	Abdul Kalam Island	2015

List Of State Name Changes In India

No.	Past Name	Present Name	Year
1	Andhra State	Andhra Pradesh	1956
2	Madhya Bharat	Madhya Pradesh	1959
3	Madras State	Tamil Nadu	1969
4	Mysore State	Karnataka	1973
5	Orissa	Odisha	2011
6	Tipperah	Tripura	1949
7	Travancore-Cochin	Kerala	1956
8	United Provinces	Uttar Pradesh	1950
9	Uttaranchal	Uttarakhand	2007